On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 01:09 +0300, Markku Kolkka wrote: > Aaron Konstam kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 14. > syyskuuta 2007): > > They are selling San Disk 4GB Cruzer Micro U3 USB Flash drive > > for $54 (~ $60 dollars shipped) SKU AD0631864 > > I bought exactly that drive for 30 Euros (~41 USD), so you are > getting ripped off at that price. I have obviously unleashed a pack of hostility. Let me say: 1. I am not worried that some people can buy this device cheaper. 2. How much would it cost to ship the device to me from a place that one pays in euros? 3. All of these devices CDs, floppies, etc. have limited life in use. 4. I am frustrated both that floppy drives have disappeared and CD-RWs cannot be formatted as Windows can do. So to do what these devices can do flash drives are the only option. 5. I see some possibility of using a 4G flash drive that a 256M flash drive will not work for. So I am happy with my flash drive. I also use it in Windows so the U3 (http://www.u3.com) stuff looks very interesting. For example, installing a Fedora version on a machine without a DVD drive. If you can buy the same thing cheaper that is great. -- ======================================================================= Here is the fact of the week, maybe even the fact of the month. According to probably reliable sources, the Coca-Cola people are experiencing severe marketing anxiety in China. The words "Coca-Cola" translate into Chinese as either (depending on the inflection) "wax-fattened mare" or "bite the wax tadpole". Bite the wax tadpole. There is a sort of rough justice, is there not? The trouble with this fact, as lovely as it is, is that it's hard to get a whole column out of it. I'd like to teach the world to bite a wax tadpole. Coke -- it's the real wax-fattened mare. Not bad, but broad satiric vistas do not open up. -- John Carrol, The San Francisco Chronicle ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
